Where There's Hope

Where There's Hope

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Where There's Hope by Jerome Bixby

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1953

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22

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Where There's Hope

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The women had made up their minds, and nothing—repeat, nothing—could change them. But something had to give....

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nsen looked at Mary uncomfortably, started to speak and then hesitated.

Hugh Farrel sighed again and closed his eyes. It was that way with all the boys. The wives had the whip hand. If the husbands put up an argument, they'd simply get turned down flat: no sex at all, children or otherwise. The threat, Farrel thought wryly, made the boys softer than watered putty. His own wife, Alice, was one of the ringleaders of the "no babies" movement, and since he had openly declared warfare on the idea, she wouldn't even let him kiss her good-night. (For fear of losing her determination, Farrel liked to think.)

He opened his eyes again to look past the Pornsens, out of the curving port of his office-lab in the Exodus VII's flank, at the scene outside the ship.

At the edge of the clearing he could see Danny Stern and his crew, tiny beneath the cavernous sunbeam-shot overhang of giant leaves. Danny was standing

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A cynical little story about women on a wilderness planet refusing to have children until the colonists have a better handle on taming the fauna.

It might have passed for amusing at an earlier time, today we call this rape.

The characters are thin, the prose is good, the plotting is okay.